Intervertebral Disk Calcification of the Spine in an Elderly Population: Radiographic Prevalence, Location, and Distribution and Correlation with Spinal Degeneration

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 499-503

  Chanchairujira, Kullanuch ^a   Chung, Christine B ^a   Kim, Jee Young ^a   Papakonstantinou, Olympia ^a   Lee, Min Hee ^a   Clopton, Paul ^b   Resnick, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Spine, abnormalities; Spine, intervertebral disks; Spine, mineralization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK CALCIFICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL DEGENERATION; SPINE DISEASE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 1642580589     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2302011842     Document Type: Article

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